Tennis court trainer

• US 6,077,176 A
• Filed: 10/07/1991
• Issued: 06/20/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Cliff Poshadlo Jr
• Original Assignee: Cliff Poshadlo Jr
• Inventors: Poshadlo, Cliff Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chapman, Jeanette
• Assistant Examiner(s): BLAU, STEPHEN LUTHER
• Application Number:
  US07/772,698
• Time in Patent Office: 3,179 Days
• Field of Search: 273/55 R, 273/55 B, 273/29 R, 273/29 A, 273/30, 273/31
• US Class Current: 473/474
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/38 for tennis A63B61/006, A63B69/0073 and A63B69/0097 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63C 19/065 Line markings, e.g. tapes; Methods therefor

Abstract

An improved surface for a tennis court, the playing surface will have designated on it one or more locations to enable greater placement and accuracy in tennis shots. These physical locations are rectangular in nature and correspond in size to sectors or a combination of sectors whose locations are determined by equally dividing a court between the single side lanes and the net and the base line to three lanes vertically and zones horizontally. Smaller rectangular locations within the sectors may also be identified. These rectangular locations may be combinations of one or more subsectors defined by defining a sector into three sublanes and three subzones.

Claims

1. An improved surface for a tennis court having on each side of a net playing areas defined in the front by the net, in the back by a baseline, on the sides by single side lines wherein the improvement comprises means for physically identifying at least one sector on one of said playing areas, each sector being defined as one of nine areas for each playing area determined by dividing each playing area into three equal lanes parallel to the net and into three equal zones perpendicular to the net.

2. The improved playing surface of claim 1 wherein the improvement further comprises second means for physically identifying at least one sector on the other playing area.

3. The improved playing surface of claim 1 wherein the identifying means identify all nine sectors on the playing area.

4. The improved playing surface of claim 3 wherein the identified sectors are colored in a checkerboard pattern.

5. The improved playing surface of claim 1 wherein the identifying means are removable.

6. The improved playing surface of claim 5 wherein the identifying means further includes markings corresponding to traditional court marks.